In this free preview of the latest Between The Sheets Patreon special, covering the second half of Eddie Gilbert and Paul Heyman’s run booking the Continental Wrestling Federation in 1988, Kris and David look at a point of contention from when Eddie was fired or quit: Why were tapes to FNN/Score and various local affiliates either missing (to save a few dollars by not overnighting it, really?) or containing the wrong footage? After all, Ron West prided himself in getting that sort of thing correct…

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They're baaaaack! After we set the table in Part 1, we jump back to the middle of August 1988, after USA Championship Wrestling has been sold to David Woods, resulting in the reintegration of the east Tennessee circuit into Continental. We take a look at the dearth (and inaccuracy) of Continental information in the newsletters when Eddie Gilbert and Paul Heyman weren't there, Brian Pillman's planned move to Alabama, Eddie overdoing certain types of angles (and angles in general), the differences in the coverage of Matwatch and the Observer, David Woods overcomplicating everything by airing USA reruns before CWF in Montgomery, the disastrous expansion and resulting roster bloat, Ron West replacing Jack Curtis as GM, ridiculous claims about Bam Bam Bigelow's pay, and more before getting to the main event: Eddie's "injury" and departure.

Did Eddie fake a neck and shoulder injury? Why did he blatantly lie about not wrestling outside of a favor for his dad while he was out? Did Ron West, Charlie Platt, and Bob Armstrong sabotage him from the inside? Did Jerry Jarrett sabotage him from the outside? Did Missy Hyatt accidentally sabotage him? Was Eddie reeling too hard from the death of the UWF and trying to turn a dozen wrestler small territory into a national promotion? Plus how did Steve Beverly tell the story differently in the Matwatch farewell annual four years later? All that and MUCH more in a great show, one of our very best yet.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 August (Post-USA purchase)

0:49:28 September

1:44:08 October

2:21:02 Matwatch 1988 & 1991 Annuals

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